10 Online Typography Tools For Designers

Posted in Tools | On 1st November 2009 | 8 Comments

Typography can be difficult at times to work with, getting it wrong can really alter and effect the feel of the design and what you as a designer were trying to put across.

In this piece you will find 10 great online typography tools that will help with your typography dilemmas, and hopefully save you a little time whilst undertaking your project.

Below there are tools to help with the coding site of typography, creating fonts, identifying fonts and the previewing and testing of fonts.

BitFontMaker

bitfont

Online bit Font maker for Windows and Mac.

CSSTXT

csstxt

CSSTXT is a CSS Style Generator with text, it allows you to set fonts, sizes, colours and outputs the code for you to copy and paste in your stylesheet.

CSSType

csstype

Web Safe Typography on Screen for Pixel Perfectionists, outputs the results for your stylesheet.

CSS Typeset

csstypeset

Typography tool that allows users to experiment with text and get their finished product outputted in CSS.

Flipping Typical

flipty

This allows you to enter custom text and test drive the fonts on your machine, it displays a large number so you can quickly identify the font you need.

PXtoEM

pxem

Converts PM PX to EM and vice versa, great and useful conversion tool.

STC Font Browser

stc

This application allows you to view and test fonts from the computer you are using, you can also enter custom text to preview.

Type Navigator

typenav

Visual font search, you don’t need the name you can just match the fonts characteristics and it will find the font your searching for.

What The Font

whatthefont

Another font discovery application, also has an iPhone app which is very cool!

Wordle

wordle

Online tool that will create a word cloud from the text you input.

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